Michael Bills will join the maker of the Sleep Number bed as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. He has more than 20 years of experience and is currently the executive director at The Ohio State University. The Plymouth-based Select Comfort Corp. also promoted Andy Carlin to chief sales officer and Annie Bloomquist to chief product officer.

The Bloomington-based lawn equipment manufacturer is testing some of its snowblowers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The Associated Press reports, because of the lack of snow in northern Minnesota, Toro had to find it elsewhere -- about 250 miles away.

ValueVision Media Inc. is promoting Carol Steinberg to chief operating officer, the Star Tribune reports. The Eden Prairie-based company operates the ShopNBC 24-hour TV shopping network. Last year, Steinberg was appointed to executive vice president of Internet, marketing and human resources.

The Bloomington-based maker of yearbooks, class rings and similar products will start phasing out nearly 400 jobs in July. The director of communications for Jostens told the Topeka Capital-Journal, "the transition is expected to be substantially complete by January of 2013."